Internet mocks Fox News after it's forced to admit job growth was stronger under Obama than Trump
BRAD REED
05 JAN 2018 AT 13:03 ET
The official monthly jobs report for December 2017 was a disappointment, as the Labor Department estimated that the economy added just 148,000 jobs over the last month.
And despite the fact that President Donald Trump has bragged about his first year in office being an unqualified economic success, it turns out that average monthly job growth in 2017 was 171,000 jobs per month — which was down significantly from the 187,000 jobs per month that were added in 2016.
What’s more, the monthly average of 171,000 jobs created in 2017 was actually the lowest average monthly job growth since 2010, when just 88,000 jobs were added per month.
Fox News’ research team posted the numbers for average monthly job growth on its Twitter account — and there was deathly silence in response from the usual crowd of Trump supporters.
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Instead, the tweet generated lots of pointing and laughing from liberals who mocked Fox for finally admitting reality and acknowledging that job growth under the last six years of the Obama administration was stronger than during Trump’s first year.
Check out the top reactions below.
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Hold their feet to the fire!! 
in the interest of accuracy and fairness, and not wanting to act like FOX, these numbers don't really show anything.
For one thing, reporting of economic indicators typically lags what is going on in the real world by 12-18 months, and if you take a simple trend line from 2014 through 2016 it would have predicted the 2017 number just below 150,000.
Just the facts, ma'am. Please don't call me a troll or Russian bot 
